This was the main selling point for me. I compared Sony's library against Amazon's and after searching for books in different genre for about an hour I found that Amazon had much more available and at a cheaper price.

This is an E-book Reader and available content is what drove me to the Kindle.

Well, I have heard Sony's store will soon match Amazon's. I don't see why it would, it isn't like Sony is some rinky-dink company. Plus, as you mentioned, as the popularity of ebooks rises, it should be a moot point.

In any case it doesn't matter much, as I have read most of the books on my reader from this forums Uploads section.

Well, I have heard Sony's store will soon match Amazon's. I don't see why it would, it isn't like Sony is some rinky-dink company. Plus, as you mentioned, as the popularity of ebooks rises, it should be a moot point.

In any case it doesn't matter much, as I have read most of the books on my reader from this forums Uploads section.

I honestly think that would be great. I like competition, but I haven't exactly seen signs of it. Amazon's been in the business over a year and Sony still hasn't met them in content let a lone prices and nifty things like free sample chapters. Still, I'd still rather buy an .azw I can strip the DRM off of an archive.

Amazon could nip this issue in the bud by selling ebooks also for the Sony reader

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Originally Posted by Drezin

Well, I have heard Sony's store will soon match Amazon's. I don't see why it would, it isn't like Sony is some rinky-dink company. Plus, as you mentioned, as the popularity of ebooks rises, it should be a moot point.

In any case it doesn't matter much, as I have read most of the books on my reader from this forums Uploads section.

The K1 has the same dictionary. What is new is the ease of looking up a word, because the K1 could only select a line with its scrollbar but the K2 can select a single word from the page using the joystick.

One of the advantages of how "minor" the K2 upgrade turned out be be is that there is very good backward compatibility. For almost everything a K1 will be "good enough" at least until the K3 comes out.

Is there any data/press releases/speculation/etc on the Kindle 3? What will be different about it?

Also, this is from the Kindle 2 user guide, about the dictionary:

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Your Kindle includes The New Oxford American Dictionary. You can easily look up a particular word without leaving the content. Simply use the 5-way controller to navigate the cursor in front of the word you want defined. A definition of the word appears at the bottom of the screen. To view the full definition, press the Return key on the keyboard. To return to the text you were reading, press the Back button.

Dictionary was one of the important features for me as well. Although I never used K1, the ability to look up a specific word as opposed to the entire line and viewing the definition without leaving the content is perhaps the best implementation I've seen in all the ebook readers I've researched.

To top that off, it sounds like you can lookup Wikipedia content through Whispernet, meaning anytime anywhere!

Pointing to the word with a stylus like iRex DR1000S would perhaps be even better, but iRex has no support for highlighting and annotating of mobi books at this point and adding stylus support means embedding a Wacom tablet under the screen and significantly adding to the cost of the device. Sony had a chance with it's newest touch-screen PRS-700 reader but they have no dictionary support and the new screen does not display text as sharp as other eInk readers. Bookeen Cybook Gen3 has a very similar joystick driven dictionary lookup support, but K2 adds a keyboard for annotating, access to Amazon content, and Whispernet for Wikipedia searches. You just can't beat the Kindle!